My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris

Ferris really dives into her artwork, and the painstaking detail is so evident up close, while seeming to be a la Robert Crumb from a further distance. The detail and the coloring, as I kept turning page after page in this book I just kept saying ‘wow’ as I would see a new image that took my breath away. Like I said, this is all done in pen, and it just pops off the page. I mean, I just need to talk about the art. Because “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters” was just amazing.

It entered in and out of my mind for the next few months, until I was at a staff training and it was on the shelf.

So I said that I was going to request it…. My boss said she was surprised that the request wasn’t for me, and I admitted that I hadn’t even heard of it. And plus, it has ‘monsters’ in the title. I was unloading boxes of new books at work, and I literally gasped when I saw it. Review: I remember the moment that I first laid eyes on the book “My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Vol.1)”. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. Publishing Info: Fantagraphics, February 2017īook Description: Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Book: “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Vol.1)” by Emil Ferris

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris